Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-02-01 13:49:23. Caption as posted: "A postcard image of the Beaver Head Light on the island's south end, possibly taken by northern Michigan photographer Edward Beebe, circa 1920's or later. Note the white picket fence around the perimeter of the facility."
Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked
A sepia-toned photograph shows a tall cylindrical lighthouse with a lantern room beside a two-story building. A low light-colored perimeter wall or fence runs across the grounds, with a dirt path leading toward the buildings. Trees and shrubs frame the scene, and a dark barrel-like object rests near the wall.
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Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
Beaver Head Lighthouse Beaver Island St. James, Mich.
Taken from the record
Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.
The catalogue record identifies this as a postcard image of Beaver Head Light and attributes the posting to Suzanne Jule. The record places the lighthouse at the south end and suggests it may have been made by photographer Edward Beebe circa the 1920s or later.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
The lettering appears in the lower-left corner of the image; its exact typographic status is unclear. The object near the wall may be a barrel or similar container.
Rights and credit
Community source, no stated terms; published non-commercially with attribution to the poster and a link to the original post.
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Provenance
- Held by
- Individual posters, credited per image
- Collection
- Community photographs — public Facebook groups and pages
- Original
- https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10170091655811337&set=g.1178704363851871
- Copy taken
- 2026-02-01
- Title from
- the note recorded at retrieval
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
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| Master | JPEG | 1,865 × 1,151 px | 160 KB | bfecb67a7c62… |
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Cite this
“Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-02-01 13:49:23”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2026-02-01-10170091655811337/. copy retrieved 2026-02-01.
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